![]() Frank just wants to find out what happened to Rosie Daly-and he’s willing to do whatever it takes, to himself or anyone else, to get the job done. ![]() Faithful Place wants him out because he’s a detective now, and the Place has never liked cops. The cops working the case want him out of the way, in case loyalty to his family and community makes him a liability. Frank finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind. ![]() Getting sucked in is a lot easier than getting out again. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank is going home whether he likes it or not. Everyone thought she had gone to England on her own and was over there living a shiny new life. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. ![]() He and his girl, Rosie Daly, were all set to run away to London together, get married, get good jobs, break away from factory work and poverty and their old lives.īut on the winter night when they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city and living crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. ![]()
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